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General
Secy's. Messege:
Dear Readers,
 Greetings
from the
Church
of
North India
Synod.
I
feel enthused to keep you communicated of all the happenings in
Church of North
India
through this e-newsletter.
I believe that your intercession to God on our behalf has enabled
us to journey with the masses addressing their issues and sharing in
God’s kingdom the value of solidarity.
In this issue we bring you updates on various programmes and
projects of
Church of North
India
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CNI
Mission Statement
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"The Church of North India as a
United and Uniting together is committed to announce the Good News of the
reign of God inaugurated through death and resurrection of Jesus Christ in
proclamation and to demonstrate in actions to restore the integrity of God's
creation through continuous struggle against the demonic powers by breaking
down the barriers of caste, class, gender, economic inequality and
exploitation of the nature."
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Christians
and Muslims Jointly Demand Equal Rights and Review of Presidential
Order of 1950
Christians
and Muslims came together in large numbers today, Monday 30th
April 2007, at Ram Lila Grounds in
Delhi
and demanded SC status for Dalit Christians and Dalit Muslims and
delinking of religion in granting SC status.
The rally was jointly organised by the All India United
Muslim Morcha, Dalit Muslim Liberation Movement and the National
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Peace
Builders - Children for Peace Launched By
Church
Of
North India
,
Methodist
Church
, U.K, United Reformed Church and Henry Martin Institute
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“The
God of peace, the God of life orients the struggle of his people in
a precise direction towards the establishment of justice. There is
no peace without justice. This integral relation between peace and
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Seminar on “Tribal Nationalists in
India
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Diocese of
Durgapur
,
Church of North
India
, organized a three-day seminar on Tribal Nationalists in
India
at the Tribal research Centre (Shanti Griha) on and from 4th May
2007.
Participants from
Eastern Himalayan Diocese, SBSS-Ranchi, Chotonagpur Diocese and
Durgapur Diocese attended this seminar. A good number of educated
tribals from adjoining districts also took part in the
deliberations....more
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Theatre
Workshop for Street and Working Children of the
Delhi
Brotherhood Society
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A
theatre workshop was organized for the Street and Working
Children of the Delhi Brotherhood Society from 10 March -
05 April, 2007
. 30 children participated in the workshop, who then staged a
play titled “Shanti
Shanthum” during the launch of the Programme “Peace
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INAUGURATION
OF 2 COMMUNITY STUDY CENTRES IN DIOCESE OF
DURGAPUR
 Community
Study Centres (CSC) caters to the needs of school going as well as
non-school going children, where children are provided with an
enabling environment of learning and development. These CSCs are
managed by the Diocesan Women’s Fellowship through the members of
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News
from Far and Near
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For
these children, labour is survival
Nagpur
:
an 18 year old class X passed youth, asks for a petty job. But the
employer turns him down. Later,
two 12-year old boys ask for the same job and they get it – at Rs.
5 per day. “I would have had to pay Rs.50 to the
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NCM
seeks report on pastor attack
New Delhi
: The
National Commission for Minorities sought a report from the BJP-ruled
Rajasthan government on the attack on a pastor by suspected VHP and
Bajrang Dal activists in Jaipur on Monday following reports that a pastor
was beaten up just after worship
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Two 5-yr old girls
raped in west
Delhi
Three
five-year-old girls playing at a neighbourhood park near Tilak Nagar in
west
Delhi
were lured to a nearby house with sweets and sexually assaulted by at
least four men on Monday evening, according to the police.
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Saving
the girl child
The
recent recovery of 400 foetal bones from behind a hospital in Ratlam
should be an eye opener for the policy makers to take urgent steps
to arrest the rising incidence of female foeticide and infanticide
in the country.
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Minority Matters
Last
week, an
Allahabad
high court judge, observing that the Muslims “have ceased to be a
religious minority community” in Uttar Pradesh, directed the state
“to treat any member of Muslim community equal to other
non-minority religious communities”. He
also issued a writ of mandamus to the Union of
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Story
 Nirmala is an 8-year-old,
she proudly gets up to count numbers and say the Hindi alphabets with
ease. She is the brightest student in the Haranala CSC. With neatly combed
hair and bright eyes, she comes everyday from 9 am to 11 am to learn. This
colony has no government school. It is the only place where children from
48 families can come and learn.
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Daily
Reading 
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Future
Events
Media
Education for Youth Empowerment and Action
The importance of media nowadays is deeply impressed and has an enormous
influence on every single individual living on this planet.
Media has the power to make or break any person in the
world.
So,
the Church of North India felt the need of organizing a “Workshop on Media Education for Youth Empowerment and Action”
from 15th to 19th June 2007 at CNI Centre
for Human Potential Development, Nagpur to help young
people put current images and messages about people and
communities into perspective by helping them understand
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Editorial
Team
Rev.
Dr. Enos Das Pradhan
Editor-in-Chief
Sudipta
Singh
Sushma
Ramaswami
Editors
Sanjana
Das
Rachael
Pradhan
Kasta
Dip
Associate Editors
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